Rose, I'm sorry about your E-mail. You might consider using some E-mail program other than Outlook Express. I don't know much about it, but I'm told it's rather vulnerable. Of course, if you keep the patches installed, maybe not. Anyway, I use Eudora Pro which seems to be much less vulnerable. There are a fair number of protective steps you can take to ward of viruses. Of course, some of these reduce functionality, I'm told, but that's ok with me. Good luck in getting it all restored. Lou At 12:36 PM 12/14/01 -0500, you wrote: >Barbie, do me a favor please...I lost all my email, apparently a worm got >in undetected, and now i can't use my outlook express...so have to >reformat the whole shebang!! Bummer, huh?